Sunday, September 10, 2006

Word fancies

Travelling home with my son Ric yesterday, I was intrigued by this message on the back of a car park ticket he had picked up while at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and left sticking on his windscreen."What on earth is a 'zomph area' ?" I asked him innocently.

I leave it to my readers to come up with some imaginative definitions!

Judith, soldiers used to "yomp" back in the 1970s when I worked for 1 & 3 Training Regiment, Royal Engineers. The RE didn't yomp, it was an occupation of infantry, marching and carrying all their kit in enormous rucksacks. (Engineers built bridges, mostly in attractive spots like Gibraltar.)

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This blog is about leaving my footprint behind when I go. It's also about finding out who I am now, even if it's a different person each day. It's about thinking, feeling, learning and changing - and about laughing too, I hope; and it's about filling my life with new people and making each new day interesting.